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Judgment Day

Science of Discworld IV: A Novel

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Judgment Day

By: Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens, Stephen Briggs
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The fourth book in the Science of Discworld series, and this time around dealing with THE REALLY BIG QUESTIONS, Terry Pratchett's brilliant new Discworld story Judgment Day is annotated with very big footnotes (the interleaving chapters) by mathematician Ian Stewart and biologist Jack Cohen, to bring you a mind-mangling combination of fiction, cutting-edge science, and philosophy.

Marjorie Dawe is a librarian and takes her job - and indeed the truth of words - very seriously. She doesn't know it, but her world and ours - Roundworld - is in big trouble. On Discworld, a colossal row is brewing. The Wizards of the Unseen University feel responsible for Roundworld (as one would for a pet gerbil). After all, they brought it into existence by bungling an experiment in Quantum ThaumoDynamics. But legal action is being brought against them by Omnians, who say that the Wizards' godlike actions make a mockery of their noble religion. As the finest legal brains in Discworld (a zombie and a priest) gird their loins to do battle - and when the Great Big Thing in the High Energy Magic Laboratory is switched on - Marjorie Dawe finds herself thrown across the multiverse and right in the middle of the whole explosive affair.

As God, the Universe, and, frankly, Everything Else is investigated by the trio, you can expect world-bearing elephants, quantum gravity in the Escher-verse, evolutionary design, eternal inflation, dark matter, disbelief systems - and an in-depth study of how to invent a better mousetrap.

©2015 Terry Pratchett (P)2015 Random House Audio
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Critic reviews

"Stewart, Cohen and Pratchett set out to puzzle us and make us think differently.... This is exhilarating." (A. S. Byatt, New Statesman)

“Fascinating and entertaining.... It’s baffling why this appealingly distinctive offshoot of the wildly popular Discworld yarns took so long to cross the Atlantic.” (Kirkus Reviews)

Fun Storyline • Compelling Interweaving • Wonderful Narrator • Relevant Side Story
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Heard the four chapters of the science of Disc World. All very much worth listening.

very entertaining and thought provoking.

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Content of story was just not as creative as his other books. I have to say I feel that it was a disappointment.

Boring

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It is a nice book about belief and what it means for different kinds of people.

There is nothing wrong with being an Atheist

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This is a wonderful book. The science side is deep, lucid and well explained. The Discworld part is as fun as they come! The two story lines interweave and combine in a very compelling fashion.

An excellent science and fun combination

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Unlike other reviewers, this reader doesn't look to science books to reinforce the desert fables I was taught as a child. Like the other books in this series, this is a tongue in cheek exploration of science, the history of science, and why science is not magic. Delightful and informative.

It's a science book. Don't expect miracles.

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This is the second time I’ve listened to the entire science of Discworld series.
Judgment day is by far the densest of the books. It has a serious point to make and it makes it well.

I consider the 4 books as a single Terry Pratchett story.

If you get it, you get it.

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Science lectures just rehashed prior topics, didn't really give us anything new. It felt like there was less Discworld, too -- even the introduction of a new character felt more like a tease than a story. As much as I love this series, I would recommend just skipping this one.

Not as good as the prior ones.

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Loved it! Great read. Extremely thought provoking, funny, insightful, fun, silly, serious, entertaining and educational!

Amazing, brilliantly insightful and informative!

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So every other chapter is on discworld, with the wizards, Lord V and others. The science is great, don’t get me wrong, but hearing Pratchett’s marvelous voice one last time leaves me with one last word: Ook!

This contains the last discworld I can find to read

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The discWorld side story is fun and relevant as usual. The science is at times very dense but also very solid. Tougher to grasp and retain in audio.

Overall very good.

Good but dense

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